Please enjoy our brief presentation on The Dangers of Distracted Driving.
Through a partnership with the Governors Traffic Safety Bureau, Creative Visions will be here to provide the information you need to keep you and your family safe on the road this spring and summer.
The Founding of Creative Visions
Creative Visions is proud to announce the launch of its new YouTube Channel.
We recognize the need to both tell our story and provide interesting content for our community to benefit from.
Please follow the above link to YouTube and view all the content we have to share with you. Be sure to subscribe if you want to stay up to date on more.
Meet Joseph Cox. After spending several months behind bars for probation violation, Mr. Cox has decided to reinvest his energy and time into his own personal development and goals.
After just one week in the Fort Des Moines correctional housing facility, Cox was able to secure employment with Premier Business Solutions. He now plans to work on his business aspirations.
“This is all I thought about in there, man” said Cox about his budding artist development and marketing company. “I figured if I put as much into this as I did in that street stuff, I’ll be straight.”
Creative Visions believes in building people and that means that we are invested in the entire person. Any dream, aspiration, or obstacle that you may face, we are there to cheer you on, help you up, and push you to the next level!
Follow us as we work with Mr. Cox to develop and grow his business. The first step being the book he holds, Rhonda Abrams ‘Business Plan in a Day”.
Happy Thanksgiving!
According to AAA Motor Club, more people are expected to hit the road for Thanksgiving than last year.
Creative Visions Human Development Institute and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau, wishes to remind you…
Whether traveling near or traveling far, dont be distracted while driving a car
Before using your phone, texting or GPS- Pull Over
Distracted Driving Kills!
Over the course of this summer and fall Creative Visions has worked with the Governors Traffic Safety Bureau to administer workshops that teach the dangers of distracted driving. Last week one of these workshops was held at McKee Alternative Learning Center to a group of young men who normally may have had a hard time sitting and listening to a lecture on the dangers of distracted driving.
Not only were they engaged in the workshop, but one of the classes sent our program coordinator Kevin Clark several thank you letters!
We are sharing this because its not very often you get to make a difference in a child’s life, and rarer still they show that appreciation so soon afterward.
The young peoples appreciation has led to an opportunity for Creative Visions to host an after school mentoring program with at McKee. We are excited about the chance to help these young men gain some incite as to how to achieve a successful future and avoid the negative barriers that face so many young people today.
Check in with us regularly to see how this initiative has helped these young men lives.
Over the past nine months Creative Visions has provided employment services to over 188 clients. These services include resume and interview prep, assistance in securing resources for clothing and transportation, instruction in completing online and paper applications, bus tokens in case of emergency, and our bi-weekly job club.
Creative Visions Job Club has met over the last year with employers from all over the metro. Through this job club, we provide an opportunity for clients to network with one another and meet with employers who are hiring.
We understand the barriers that can prevent even the most determined individual from gaining employment. That’s why Creative Vision has developed its employment program in such a way that it addresses almost any issue facing job seekers; be they financial, technological or simple emotional support.
If you would like to enroll in Creative Visions employment program or attend our next job club meeting, don’t hesitate to stop by or call
Kevin Clark, program coordinator at 515-244-4003 x 121.
This Saturday C
reative Visions took a group of 15 children on their first visit to the African-American history museum in Cedar Rapids. In a tour led by Executive Director Tom Moore, we explored the history’s of the first African-Americans to come to come to Iowa, the legacy and realities of slavery, and the countless accomplishments of African-Americans since then.
This field trip was the final chapter of our History class designed to educate young people on the various aspects of African-American history. We’ve filmed all our class meetings and will be forming a YouTube channel based on that content.
We were extremely fortunate meet a lady related to one of the 4 young women killed in the bombing at Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960′s. She and her family were enjoying a reunion at the museum and took the time to share how the attack effected her and contributed to the Civil Rights movement.
These past six weeks have been an amazing experience for both Creative Visions’ and the young people involved. Stay tuned because in the next few weeks we’ll be uploading the footage of the program for your enjoyment and education.
For the last 8 years Creative Visions has hosted a community meal program to feed the homeless, the elderly and the disabled and this year (June of 2011 – July of 2012) we have served more than 6,000 meals!
This program has grown to include sponsors from sororities, local churches, community organizations and corporations.
This is an invaluable service that allows neighbors to meet each other, feeds children who would not have received a good meal that day, and it also allows Creative Visions to educate a captive audience on issues related to health, education, employment and public safety.
To everyone who has participated, sponsored or volunteered in our meal program, we thank you, and we look forward to another year helping people be healthy, happy and well fed.
